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	There is a new post on The White Peril 白禍.  You can read it at:

http://whiteperil.com/posts/1201105181.shtml

It begins:

	I used to have a friend or two who covered health
	care here as journalists or consultants, so I'd
	have been able to ask about the recent
	efflorescence of stories about patients' either
	being turned away from hospitals during
	life-threatening emergencies or being turned out of
	hospitals after their course of treatment was over
	if they had no home or family to go back to. As in,
	I'm not sure whether we're looking at relatively
	new phenomena, widespread phenomena that are
	finally getting coverage, or a few scattered
	incidents that eager reporters want to interpret as
	a larger pattern that may...